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DPRK

Kim supervises ICB Mengine test

Democratic People's Republic of Korea top leader Kim Jong-un supervised a successful test of a new engine for an intercontinental ballistic missile, media said on Saturday, in its latest report of advances in an arms programme that has attracted UN sanctions. The engine was ignited at Kim's command and released a fiery blast, and the test showed the indigenously designed rocket fulfilled all required conditions, the DPRK's Korean Central News Agency said. "Dear comrade Kim Jong-un said now we can mount an evermore powerful nuclear warhead on a new intercontinental ballistic rocket," KCNA reported